Princess Tristine can hardly wait for her 10th birthday to go on her first hunt with her father, King Ellis, and her older brother, Prince Nigel. Eager to prove herself, Tristine chases a stag deepinto Dorgirith. Lost in the once-forbiddenforest, Tristine and Nigel find somethinglong forgotten
Nothing is what it seemsAfter receiving an invitation from the reclusive country of Natan to meet the new Emperor, King Tyrone entrusts Nigel, Mirit and Lord Allard as royal envoys. Matters become complicated when a defiant twelve-year-old Titus is discovered to have stowed away, to the great anger of his father Tyrone. Met by Admiral Kentashi for final escort to Natan, the group makes a hasty decision to conceal certain identities in hopes of avoiding insult and trouble. But what waits in Natan, plunges them into a mystery surrounding the unnatural events after their arrival and the triggering of a civil war. It becomes a life and death struggle to escape Natan, for nothing is what it seems.
Ellan escapes from exile to reclaim the throne She'll stop at nothing to destroy Tristine and Tyrone, including summoning the dark forces her father once defeated. Her action divides the Council of Twelve, catches the Guardians unprepared, throws the royal family into turmoil and brings Allon to civil war.Only one man stands between she and her goal. Only man can command the loyalty to thwart her plans. The question is - will he?
A few weeks before the wedding of Prince Titus to Lady Jillian and the laying of the cornerstone for Jor'el's Palace, an unexpected incident sends shockwaves through the Guardian ranks. It leaves them reeling in respect to their future.Shortly after the devastating incident, a stranger arrives in the South Plains with little memory of how he got there. His arrival triggers a series of events that threatens the stability of the province. He also has intimate knowledge of people and current affairs, which continues to confound those sent to help Wess investigate. As the mystery deepens regarding him, answers seem hard to find . . . or are they hidden in plain sight right in front of them?
Will Darkness Overshadow Hope?Five hundred years have passed since the Great Battle of immortals drove the mighty Guardians of Jor'el from Allon, and allowed the rise of the Dark Way.Grand Master Latham plots to use King Marcellus to bring the kingdom under total control of the Dark Lord Dagar. However, an ancient prophecy tells of the Guardians' return along with the rightful heir to reclaim Allon for Jor'el.At age 16, Prince Ellis must find a way to defeat Latham and Dagar if Allon is to have any hope of salvation. He will face trials that test his character, faith, wisdom and ultimately, his heart.(*This 2nd edition is the author's version with 60 pages of new material and expanded scenes.)
Shabnam Rezapour; Amirhossein Khosrojerdi; Golnoosh Rasoulifar; Janet K. Allen; Jitesh H. Panchal; Ramakrishnan S. Srinivasan; Jeffrey D. Tew; Farrokh Mistree
A fail-safe supply network is designed to mitigate the impact of variations and disruptions on people and corporations. This is achieved by (1) developing a network structure to mitigate the impact of disruptions that distort the network structure and (2) planning flow through the network to neutralize the effects of variations. In this monograph, we propose a framework, develop mathematical models and provide examples of fail-safe supply network design. We show that, contrary to current thinking as embodied in the supply network literature, disruption management decisions made at the strategic network design level are not independent from variation management decisions made at the operational level. Accordingly, we suggest that it is beneficial to manage disruptions and variations concurrently in supply networks. This is achieved by architecting fail-safe supply networks, which are characterized by the following elements: reliability, robustness, flexibility, structural controllability, and resilience. Organizations can use the framework presented in this monograph to manage variations and disruptions. Managers can select the best operational management strategies for their supply networks considering variations in supply and demand, and identify the best network restoration strategies including facility fortification, backup inventory, flexible production capacity, flexible inventory, and transportation route reconfiguration. The framework is generalizable to other complex engineered networks.
Shabnam Rezapour; Amirhossein Khosrojerdi; Golnoosh Rasoulifar; Janet K. Allen; Jitesh H. Panchal; Ramakrishnan S. Srinivasan; Jeffrey D. Tew; Farrokh Mistree
A fail-safe supply network is designed to mitigate the impact of variations and disruptions on people and corporations. This is achieved by (1) developing a network structure to mitigate the impact of disruptions that distort the network structure and (2) planning flow through the network to neutralize the effects of variations. In this monograph, we propose a framework, develop mathematical models and provide examples of fail-safe supply network design. We show that, contrary to current thinking as embodied in the supply network literature, disruption management decisions made at the strategic network design level are not independent from variation management decisions made at the operational level. Accordingly, we suggest that it is beneficial to manage disruptions and variations concurrently in supply networks. This is achieved by architecting fail-safe supply networks, which are characterized by the following elements: reliability, robustness, flexibility, structural controllability, and resilience. Organizations can use the framework presented in this monograph to manage variations and disruptions. Managers can select the best operational management strategies for their supply networks considering variations in supply and demand, and identify the best network restoration strategies including facility fortification, backup inventory, flexible production capacity, flexible inventory, and transportation route reconfiguration. The framework is generalizable to other complex engineered networks.
The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage problems that are generally too complex, too expensive,, and too politically divisive for one agency to manage or resolve on its own. Governments have organized multi-sector collaborations as a way to achieve better results for the past two decades. We know much about why collaboration occurs. We know a good deal about how collaborative processes work. Collaborations organized, led, and managed by grassroots organizations are rarer, though becoming more common. We do not as yet have a clear understanding of how they might differ from government led collaborations. Hampton Roads, Virginia, located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, offers an unusual opportunity to study and draw comparative lessons from three grassroots environmental collaborations to restore three rivers in the watershed, in terms of how they build, organize and distribute social capital, deepen democratic values, and succeed in meeting ecosystem restoration goals and benchmarks. This is relevant for the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed, but is also relevant for understanding grassroots collaborative options for managing, protecting, and restoring watersheds throughout the U.S. It may also provide useful information for developing grassroots collaborations in other policy sectors. The premise underlying this work is that to continue making progress toward achieving substantive environmental outcomes in a world where the problems are complex, expensive, and politically divisive, more non-state stakeholders must be actively involved in defining the problems and developing solutions. This will require more multi-sector collaborations of the type that governments have increasingly relied on for the past two decades. Our approach examines one subset of environmental collaboration, those driven and managed by grassroots organizations that were established to address specific environmental problems and provide implementable solutions to those problems, so that we may draw lessons that inform other grassroots collaborative efforts.
The nation’s approach to managing environmental policy and protecting natural resources has shifted from the national government’s top down, command and control, regulatory approach, used almost exclusively in the 1970s, to collaborative, multi-sector approaches used in recent decades to manage problems that are generally too complex, too expensive,, and too politically divisive for one agency to manage or resolve on its own. Governments have organized multi-sector collaborations as a way to achieve better results for the past two decades. We know much about why collaboration occurs. We know a good deal about how collaborative processes work. Collaborations organized, led, and managed by grassroots organizations are rarer, though becoming more common. We do not as yet have a clear understanding of how they might differ from government led collaborations. Hampton Roads, Virginia, located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay, offers an unusual opportunity to study and draw comparative lessons from three grassroots environmental collaborations to restore three rivers in the watershed, in terms of how they build, organize and distribute social capital, deepen democratic values, and succeed in meeting ecosystem restoration goals and benchmarks. This is relevant for the entire Chesapeake Bay watershed, but is also relevant for understanding grassroots collaborative options for managing, protecting, and restoring watersheds throughout the U.S. It may also provide useful information for developing grassroots collaborations in other policy sectors. The premise underlying this work is that to continue making progress toward achieving substantive environmental outcomes in a world where the problems are complex, expensive, and politically divisive, more non-state stakeholders must be actively involved in defining the problems and developing solutions. This will require more multi-sector collaborations of the type that governments have increasingly relied on for the past two decades. Our approach examines one subset of environmental collaboration, those driven and managed by grassroots organizations that were established to address specific environmental problems and provide implementable solutions to those problems, so that we may draw lessons that inform other grassroots collaborative efforts.
Zebraungen Zander føler sig anderledes end de andre børn i klassen. Han er bekymret for, at det eneste, de lægger mærke til ved ham, er hans „autismestribe.“ Med hjælp fra sin mor lærer Zander at blive glad for alle sine striber – også dem, der er de stærke sider ved ham. Dem, der gør ham til netop den, han er!Børn med autisme føler sig ofte anderledes end andre børn og kan ikke altid forstå hvorfor.Denne smukt illustrerede historie om zebraungen Zander kan hjælpe børn med autisme og deres kammerater til at blive klogere på denne særlige måde at være i verden på. I den sidste del af bogen er der en læsevejledning, der ud over de udfordringer,som børn med autisme står over for, også omhandler børnenes stærke sider. Der er desuden et afsnit til forældre og fagfolk med yderligere baggrundsinformation om autisme og tips til atfinde hjælp og støtte.
Con i cambiamenti sociali, culturali e industriali, il modello di malattia cambiato e di conseguenza le malattie croniche sono considerate i pi importanti problemi di salute e psicologici delle persone. Pertanto, le malattie croniche sono considerate una delle principali fonti di stress e impongono molti costi economici alla societ . Queste malattie hanno molti tipi, uno dei pi importanti quello delle malattie cardiovascolari. Le malattie cardiovascolari sono un gruppo di patologie in cui un problema si verifica nel cuore o nei vasi e colpisce il sistema circolatorio, tra cui le cardiopatie, le malattie coronariche e le malattie renali e arteriose. La coronaropatia una delle malattie cardiovascolari causata dal danneggiamento e dall'ostruzione delle arterie coronarie del cuore. In questo disturbo, la parete di una o pi arterie coronarie del cuore parzialmente o completamente ostruita a causa del deposito di sostanze chiamate placca e il flusso sanguigno verso diverse parti del cuore permanentemente o temporaneamente interrotto, il che pu di per s come risultato, problemi come l'indice di massa corporea sono obesi nelle persone.
Meeresumgebungen sind durch starke Schwankungen der Umweltbedingungen gekennzeichnet, die bei Makroalgenpopulationen starken Stress ausl sen k nnen, darunter extreme Temperaturen, schnelle Ver nderungen des Salzgehalts und der N hrstoffe, Austrocknung, intensive Sonneneinstrahlung und andere. Diese Faktoren sind f r die geografische Verbreitung von Makroalgen von entscheidender Bedeutung und k nnen auch f r verschiedene physiologische Reaktionen dieser Organismen verantwortlich sein. Das aktuelle Buch kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die Auswirkungen verschiedener Stressfaktoren auf Algen zu einer Ver nderung der Genexpression und der damit verbundenen Produktion von Sekund rmetaboliten f hren, die unterschiedliche biologische Aktivit ten wie antioxidative, krebshemmende und antimikrobielle Aktivit ten aufweisen.
While a telephone adviser insists on speaking directly to the author's late husband, his employers send him a chatty letter after his death, asking him to get in touch immediately.At this point his widow begins to realise the potential value of holding a s ance: a sort of celestial conference call, especially as she'd rather like to speak to her late husband, herself.But the very real horror of suicide engulfs ordinary lives in extraordinary events. This book is a first-hand, contemporary chronicle of dealing with those events, learning to live alongside the horror, and finally emerging to live a renewed life which, although undeniably changed, is both positive and meaningful.Sadly, suicide and its consequences are both highly topical subjects, with UK suicide rates continuing to rise, particularly among men in the same age group as the author's husband. Hanging, the method used by him, is still the most common means.As a widow by suicide and the finder of her husband's body, the author continues to experience intense interest in her personal story, from acquaintances and strangers alike. A typical comment is "I can't imagine how you'd even begin to deal with such a massive shock". Her personal account of surviving the impact of her husband's suicide brings a fresh approach to the subject by emphasising active determination, positive thinking and - perhaps unusually in a book of this genre - humour. These are its consistent themes, rather than hopelessness, despair or self-pity.The resulting book is neither a 'misery memoir' nor a mental health manual, but a measured testament to pure survival, when normality has been swept away by a hideous new reality. That survival is based on self-discipline, the invaluable support of family and friends, an appreciation of goodness wherever it is found, and retaining a wry sense of humour in dealing with the aftermath of this most intensely traumatic experience. It is the story, sometimes harrowing but ultimately uplifting, of how one individual emerged intact from unimagined emotional, practical and financial devastation.
Allen Sapp's multifaceted career as a gifted composer, influential teacher, and innovative administrator is presented in this first book-length study of his life and works. The biography chronicles his studies with Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, and Nadia Boulanger; his service as Chief Cryptanalyst for the U.S. Army in Europe at the close of WWII; his early career on the faculty at Harvard; his formation of a highly influential center for avant-garde music at Buffalo in the 1960s; and his dramatic explosion of creativity in the 1980s. Musical examples from the biography are supplemented by corresponding sound files available via the World Wide Web (http://muslib.lib.ohio-state.edu/sapp/index.htm).Following the biography is a listing of Sapp's works and performances, featuring excerpts from performance reviews. This is followed by a Discography/Webography, which lists all commercially produced recordings as well as all known noncommercial recordings available in libraries, archives, or on the World Wide Web. The final two sections of the book present an annotated bibliography of writings by and about Allen Sapp. The book is supplemented by appendices providing a listing of academic and nonacademic positions held by Sapp, and chronological and alphabetical listings of his compositions.
